But just as Mr. Waltrip was winning the race, his close friend and team owner died.
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He narrowly missed winning the race, finishing second, just 70 minutes behind the winner after 151 days racing.
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Davies suffered his hamstring strain in that win in which his kick led to wing Williams winning the race for the wing's second try.
From a scrum, Care made amends for his earlier error by breaking, kicking ahead and winning the race for the touchdown, with the Leicester defence strangely hesitant.
But she has good form in New York, winning the race in 2004, just weeks after dropping out of the marathon and 10, 000m in the Athens Olympics.
But it was The Lumber Guy beating his more-fancied entrymate, winning the race by a length and a quarter and beating Sean Avery by more than seven lengths.
New York had planned to pay for the test development itself, without using federal money, but the Board of Regents approved the tests contingent upon winning the Race grant.
Abendanon cynically tripped Johne Murphy as he chipped ahead but the fit-again Moody marked his appearance from the bench by winning the race to touch down for a rapturously-received score.
The Chinese government is spending vast sums of money to subsidize deployment of solar panels and wind turbines, and as a result China appears to be winning the race to dominate this growing sector.
Reigning Sprint Cup champ Brad Keselowski -- who later told CNN he and others were simply "going for the win" -- was among those involved, while Tony Stewart somehow emerged unscathed and finished by winning the race.
But Geraghty clinched the Daily Telegraph Leading Rider award when he recorded his fifth victory, winning the final race of the meeting on Spirit Leader.
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Hamilton's teammate Jenson Button will start from fourth after he enjoyed a much improved qualifying performance, having struggled for much of the season after winning the opening race of the season.
It has been claimed that Renault boss, Flavio Briatore, in order to maximize the chances of Fernando Alonso winning the 2008 race, planned the crash of teammate Piquet Jr.
It features a dozen riders from almost as many countries that have a plausible shot at winning the overall race and wearing the yellow jersey in Paris July 25.
Danica Patrick, the head turner who turned even more heads by winning the pole race this week, will be lining up at the head of the pack.
And after the Soviet launch of Sputnik, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth, the United States went about winning the Space Race by investing in science and technology, leading not only to small steps on the moon but also to tremendous economic benefits here on Earth.
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Prince, a lawyer by training and one of Weill's key confidants, was seen as winning the horse race because of his relationships with regulators.
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Another is that the left will sweep the board, with the Socialists' Lionel Jospin (who became prime minister after Mr Chirac foolishly called an early parliamentary election in 1997) winning the presidential race.
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The winner of the men's wheelchair race was Australia's Kurt Fearnley, and the winning runner in the men's elite race was Tsegaye Kebede of Ethiopia.
Meanwhile, Italian skier Dominik Paris celebrated his second victory this season after winning the prestigious downhill race at Kitzbuhel in Austria, one of the most feared runs on the men's circuit.
Loeb came into the race seeking to extend his perfect five-race winning streak at the start of the season, but a puncture on stage 11 proved fatal to his hopes, losing him a minute which he was unable to claw back.
Kerry has emerged as the clear leader in the race, winning 14 out of the 16 contests held so far.
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